No rest for the ambitious, especially one of the more powerful women tech executives in the Triangle.
Joan Siefert Rose won’t have much time off as she steps down from the chief executive officer’s position at the Council for Entrepreneurial Development.
In fact, she’s taking a new job as a consulting effective Jan. 3.
RTP-based CREO, Inc., which describes itself as an “innovative management consulting and advisory firm,” on Monday evening announced the hiring of Rose as Senior Partner.
CREO focuses on working with clients to help them “operate effectively, freeing them to apply their talents, pursue their mission, and realize their vision through a focus on effective operations and organizational health,” the group says. “CREO’s senior team of C-level advisors works shoulder-to-shoulder with clients to solve their toughest challenges and realize their biggest opportunities.” Launched in 2015, CREO offers fractional CIO and COO leadership, strategic management consulting, executive coaching and leadership development, M&A due diligence and integration, according to the firm’s LinkedIn corporate profile.
In an interview with WRAL TechWire, Rose explained why she is taking the new job.
“I had a number of conversations with potential employers about what I might do next,” Rose explained. “I like the team at CREO and think their approach to help growing companies tackle new opportunities and solve problems aligned with my experience and interests.”
Rose is wrapping up an eight-year run as president and CEO of the CED, one of the nation’s largest entrepreneurial organizations.
Given that CREO is “a relatively new organization,” Rose said she expects a variety of assignments.
“I’ll be doing a little bit of everything!” she declared.
“I’ll be responsible for talking with people about how CREO can help them with strategy and operations, and working side by side with clients who need help executing their plans. I also expect to facilitate discussions that bring together diverse points of view within organizations, and inject some innovative thinking that I’ve picked up in my eight years observing entrepreneurs starting and growing companies.”
Rose said that the excitement of the CREO position helped her decide against taking some time off between jobs.
“This opportunity really excited me,” she said. ” I anticipate that the first couple of months will be spent ramping up, so there will be a little bit of time to catch my breath as I make this transition. I do plan for some quiet time over the holidays.”
CREO works in health, life sciences, and technology markets. Rose has plenty of experience in all three, having helped CED put on numerous tech and life science conferences over the years while working wil a wide variety of startups and entrepreneurial companies.
“We are very excited to have Joan join our team of trusted advisors,” said Susan Acker-Walsh, the CEO and co-founder of CREO, in the announcement “CREO’s clients will benefit from Joan’s ability to drive innovative and collaborative thinking, as well as her track record of helping organizations improve the effectiveness of their operations.”
The firm says Rose and its team will “focus on helping companies drive innovation internally, facilitate collaboration among diverse teams to address opportunities, and provide both strategic thinking and operational experience to businesses and nonprofits.”
To learn more about CREO, visit www.creoinc.net
